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Received then of Mr. Jacob Tonson the sum of two hundred sixty - eight pounds fifteen shillings , in pursuance of an agreement for ten thousand verses , to be delivered by me to the said Jacob Tonson , whereof I have already delivered ...
Received then of Mr. Jacob Tonson the sum of two hundred sixty - eight pounds fifteen shillings , in pursuance of an agreement for ten thousand verses , to be delivered by me to the said Jacob Tonson , whereof I have already delivered ...
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At twenty - five he produced The Ambitious Stepmother , which was received with so much favour , that he devoted himself from that time wholly to elegant literature . His next tragedy ( 1702 ) was Tamerlane , in which , under the name ...
At twenty - five he produced The Ambitious Stepmother , which was received with so much favour , that he devoted himself from that time wholly to elegant literature . His next tragedy ( 1702 ) was Tamerlane , in which , under the name ...
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That it should have been ill received would raise wonder , did we not daily see the capricious distribution of theatrical praise . He was not all this time an indifferent spectator of publick affairs . He wrote , as different exigences ...
That it should have been ill received would raise wonder , did we not daily see the capricious distribution of theatrical praise . He was not all this time an indifferent spectator of publick affairs . He wrote , as different exigences ...
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson Volume 83 of Oxford world's classics Volumes 83-84 of World's classics |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Contributor | Arthur Waugh |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1906 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 19 Jul 2006 |
| Length | 493 pages |
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